[Hiring] Full Stack Software Engineer @The AES Group

Role Description

We are seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience to support the continued development, modernization, and sustainment of secure mission software products used in DoD, Intelligence Community, and allied mission environments. The organization's products support secure data movement, message transformation, information sharing, and interoperability across mission-critical customer environments.

This position offers the opportunity to work across the full application stack while contributing to:

• Secure messaging
• Data integration
• CI/CD modernization
• AI-assisted software engineering workflows
• Future product capabilities

This position is approximately 85% work from home, with limited in-person collaboration as required. It is well suited for a hands-on software engineer who wants to contribute to mission-focused product development within a small, experienced, and technically disciplined team. Candidates should reside in, or be willing to relocate to, the Baltimore/Washington, DC metro area to support periodic in-person collaboration, customer-related activities, secure-environment requirements, team meetings, or other business needs. Opportunities for career advancement, excellent benefits, and stability are some of the advantages offered by this well-established, employee-focused organization.

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of professional software engineering experience. Exceptional candidates with 3+ years of highly relevant full-stack, integration, or secure systems experience may be considered.
• Strong Java development experience with the ability to work on existing Java codebases and safely modernize or refactor applications.
• JavaScript and preferably TypeScript, with experience in modern web UI development.
• Ability to work from UI through API/service layers, integration and messaging components, and database persistence.
• Experience with REST APIs, XML, JSON, message transformation, schema-driven data exchange, and custom message formats.
• SQL and relational database experience with technologies such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, or Oracle.
• Comfortable developing and troubleshooting applications on Linux and Windows.
• Experience with Jira, Confluence, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, or equivalent issue tracking, documentation, source control, and collaboration tools.
• Strong Git experience including branching, pull requests, code reviews, and disciplined commit practices.
• Unit testing, integration testing, debugging, and defect resolution experience.
• Proven ability to work effectively within a mostly remote, geographically dispersed team.
• Ability to clearly explain technical work to Product Owners, Mission Systems Engineering, QA, support teams, and leadership.

Requirements

• Experience with enterprise messaging, message brokers, ESB/integration frameworks, Apache Camel, Mule, JMS, AMQP, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ/Artemis, or similar technologies.
• Experience supporting DoD, Intelligence Community, federal, or classified software environments.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, automated analyzers, SBOM generation, security scanning, build gates, and release automation.
• Experience with Docker or containerized development/test environments. Kubernetes experience is helpful but not mandatory.
• Willingness to document design decisions, support runbooks, troubleshooting procedures, and engineering practices.
• Experience balancing roadmap development, customer issues, defects, technical debt, and release readiness.
• Familiarity with ISO/QMS, configuration control, change control, or regulated development practices.
• Familiarity with least privilege, auditability, secure coding, dependency risk, vulnerability remediation, and controlled release practices.

Education

• BA/BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Seven years of relevant professional experience may substitute for the degree requirement.

Clearance

• Active DoD Secret clearance required. Applicants must possess an active DoD Secret clearance at the time of hire.
• The selected candidate will be subject to a security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
• The selected candidate must also be eligible and willing to be submitted for a TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph after hire.
• Ability to maintain required clearance eligibility is a condition of continued employment in this role.